Overview

We recommend a multi-tiered approach to security: not only do we want the perimeter protected but we want the server as well as the workstations protecting themselves, too.

Utilizing a firewall with Anti-Virus installed in the hardware, followed by a server that runs Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus and Internet protection, add the same protection for each workstation and you have a comfort level using the three-tier approach.

Before a virus or trojan can even reach your mail server all mail is filetered through our Spam and Virus blockers, it is then sent to our mail server which runs additional anti-Virus and anti-spam along with an anti-phishing filter.

Then it is sent to your server which runs those same filters with additional requirements before it reaches your desktop which then filters it one last time.

Block email threats before they reach your organization. Ensure proprietary information that must remain confidential stays where it's safe. Eliminate the need for the ongoing patching andupdates required by appliance or software solutions. Leverage cloud services to reduce maintenance, conserve bandwidth, and improve the performance of your existing email infrastructure.

Google Message Security, powered by Postini, is a secure, hosted service that provides enterprise-grade spam and virus protection and email content filtering, delivering cost effective email management. Google Message Security lets you:

• secure your inbound and outbound email from spam, viruses, phishing, and other email-borne threats
• set central email policies to manage content and compliance requirements
• receive email messages even if your email server goes down
• Google Message Security automatically enforces your email security policies to help assure legal and regulatory compliance for both inbound and outbound email across your organization. The service also provides a convenient web console for administration, enabling real-time configuration and policy modifications, monitoring, and alerting, as well as comprehensive reporting for administrators. Define users in the console, or integrate Google Message Security with your organization directory for easy user synchronization.
• Google Message Security also:
• includes patented anti-spam technology, which examines thousands of elements of an email message to determine safety and delivers exceptionally low false positive rates

• leverages global "network effect" based on billions of email messages per day to identify emerging threats, ensuring early blocking and prevention. Quickly self-corrects for safe IP addresses so that email flow is not interrupted
• eases IT management of policy configuration, ensuring appropriate user guidelines and lets end users manage their own message quarantines and settings and fine-tune preferences within IT-set policies, via an easy-to-use web interface and without additional support
• includes Transport Layer Security (TLS) support, allowing encryption of sensitive email communications (can be automatically enforced for communications between designated email domains)

Postini Message Security supports the following:

• Mail servers The service supports common mail servers including Microsoft Exchange Server, Lotus Domino, Postfix, Sendmail, Macintosh OS X Server, Novell Groupwise, and is also included in Google Apps Premier Edition.
• Service Providers (hosted email) The service is compatible with ISPs and domain name providers that host the email for your own domain but you must have the ability to change the MX records associated with your service.

Feature Benefits:

• Spam and virus protection
• Provide multi-layer threat identification including heuristic and signature-based detection, commercial anti-virus engines, and "zero-hour" protection from rapidly mutating viruses
• Directory harvest attack/denial of service blocking
• Prevents attacks with patented behavior analysis
• Patented pass-through architecture
• Ensures maximum privacy of your email
• Content policy management
• Enforces acceptable use policies and content compliance for inbound and outbound email Scalability
  
• Built-in scale for dealing with any kinds of spam spikes or targeted attacks
• Web-based administration console Allows real-time user and policy updates, configuration changes, and reporting
• Log search
• Retrieve and export log information on inbound and outbound message routing details
• Email spooling: Continue to receive email messages even if your email server goes down
• Domain-to-domain encryption
• Transmit secure messages with policy-enforced Transport Layer Security protocols
• Attachment filtering
• Enforce policies including attachment size or file type limitations
• Intelligent routing
• Easily route email traffic to decentralized data center locations
• Robust service level agreement